TN Turkey Results

[mlgorecki]

Took this 22 pounder this morning, 9.5" beard and 7/8" spurs. I also took a 17 pound jake yesterday. I don't shoot jakes all the time, but with a $175 non-resident license and only 7 days to make it happen, I'm shootin' some birds. :)

Anyway, I wound up getting my four bird limit. The strategy here for this year was to aggressively call in a boss hen with a tom on her heels.


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[kingkilla]

god ur a turk slayer.

[jrode237]

Nice looking birds you got there. Too bad it wasn't all four species to complete the slam. Did you use the DSD jake in any of your setups?

[HoosierGooseHunter]

Congrats on the Turkeys.

[Double_Band12]

Where was you at in TN? The turkeys where I'm at are just now starting to get right.

[spaightlabs]

Nice job! That's a memorable hunt for sure and a lot of great eatin'!

[mlgorecki]

Where was you at in TN?
About 60 miles south of Nashville.

jrode237. Yes on the DSD pair (jake/hen), and they are the $h!t.

[h20fowler]

Looks like a great trip! Did you call that Boss Hen in?

[HRK]

Nice job gorecki, mission accomplished!

[Steve Nickerson]

Nice Thomas Matt!!!

[timberkiller]

60 south of nashville your down there with me

[mlgorecki]

In case anyone is interested in bird activity and what they responded to, call-wise, I wrote a field journal on Chasin the Limit, detailing each account.

http://chasinthelimit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=41656#41656

[randy fox]

nice birds, congrats, we need to get more turkey hunters to post up those harvested tom pics!!!!!

[Gary]

nice birds !! congrats !!!

[hossman]

Glad to hear that the Aggressive calling trick worked well for you Matt. Looks like it works pretty good huh? I know it works really dang good for me too!:D I knew it would work good for ya! ;)

[T.Mayer]

at the risk of sounding like a dummy..what exactly is aggressive calling for turkeys?...this is only my second year and i just dont know whats going on really...i can run a mouth pretty darn well but im just not what i would consider a turkey hunter yet...i know what aggressive calling for ducks and geese is but not turkeys...so answers would help out especially for the morning;)

[mlgorecki]

at the risk of sounding like a dummy..what exactly is aggressive calling for turkeys?...
That's actually a good question and I should have been more specific or maybe used another word, like volume.

YELPS: Non-aggressive would be 4-7 soft and evenly spaced yelps (tree yelps); aggressive would be a 15-25 note crescendo; starting soft and gradually building to full volume. Basically the opposite of a duck hail call.

You can also do an overlap technique in order to sound like two aggressive hens. Example: Start your 20 note yelp with a slate, then half way through, do the same with your mouth call; kinda like the "Row row row your boat" song.

CLUCKS: Non-aggressive would be soft clucks, evenly spaced, like a content hen meandering through the woods. Mixing in soft purrs is great pillow talk as well. Aggressive clucks are loud unevenly spaced (sometimes almost on top of each other) and sometimes the prelude to aggressive yelps.

CUTTS are typically aggressive in and of themselves.

Hope this helps. Good luck.